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How to Play Licks on Your Pedal Steel on the Guitar

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Summary: Learn how to play pedal steel with expert tips and advice on playing the guitar for left handed people in his free video clip on music lessons.

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How to Play Licks on Your Pedal Steel on the Guitar

I'd like to talk a little bit about pedal steel licks. Pedal steel is in reference to the instrument that's most prominently used in country music where it's a flat lap steel type instrument that's often played like this. If you've listened to country music you've heard it in literally every country song, but guitar players over the past several decades have used this for their own benefit to make some really cool sounding licks on their guitar. Typically like I do when I play a pedal steel leg say on this less pulse style guitar I'll usually go to a more, something that's going to land myself to a more twangy tone. So for example, gives a little more twang that exhibits more of that country type tone and so my first example pedal steel lick is an E major. What I'm going to do is pick the E and B string on the twelfth fret and then on the G on the eleventh fret and what I'm going to do is keep this in place and then and bend that up a full note. Meaning p to there. So play it up to speed you have a nice pedal steel sounding effect.

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